-
The Secret to Happiness? These Experts Say It’s Feeling Loved by Others
There are plenty of theories about the source of happiness. Who doesn’t think they would be happier with more money and success? We talked to happiness researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor of psychology at the
-
The Doomed Dream of an AI Matchmaker
… Of course, the dating-app questionnaires of today aren’t the same ones people were completing in 2013. And although major apps already use machine learning to note users’ preferences and to suggest prospects, it’s possible
-
Resistance Is Futile: Teaching About Merging Selves In Close Relationships
Teaching: Explore these lesson plans on merging realities, goals, and selves in relationships.
-
The Secret to Lasting Love Might Just Be Knowing How to Fight
If you love someone, learn how to fight with them. Counterintuitive though it may seem, that’s the advice of world-renowned relationship researchers and clinical psychologists Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman. “Conflict really has a
-
A Year in Review: Announcing the Top Research From APS’s Journals
The most downloaded psychological science research published in APS’s six peer-reviewed research journals in 2024 cover a broad range of topics about our understanding of ourselves and others.
-
New York Times ‘Modern Love’ Editor on What He Learned After 20 Years of Love Stories
Daniel Jones never dreamed he’d still be doing a New York Times column about love two decades and 200,000 submissions later. Or that the Modern Love column would have grown to include a podcast, books, live shows
